RABI ALAWWAL 10,1440 AH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 24º 28 Pages Max 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 16º ISSUE NO: 17685 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net MoI: Beware of foreign US-China row dominates APEC Rouhani sees Iran, Iraq expanding Record number of participants 3 objects exposed by rain 9 summit in Papua New Guinea 11 bilateral trade despite US sanctions 25 join Gulf Bank 642 Marathon Camping season delayed due to effects of stormy weather Experts say climate change behind weather fluctuations, heavy rains KUWAIT: The Municipality yesterday announced the postponement of the start of the camping season until Reconstructing hope; further notice from the civil defense committee, which includes several government bodies including the interior ministry, the defense ministry and the municipality. The restoring childhoods committee revised an earlier decision to officially launch the season today. It was cancelled due to the rainy weather conditions that led to the erosion of the soil at Op-Ed some campsites, the municipality said in a press release. The emergence of military remnants was one of the main reasons for the delay, in addition to the gathering of water and the collapse of some roads leading to the camping sites. By Kailash Satyarthi Local authorities provide a variety of facilities to ensure the success of the camping season, which extends hildren never create wars but sadly they hap- to about four months, including large areas for citizens to pen to be the worst victims of wars! Today as set up camps, in addition to establishing public services Cgeopolitical tensions are peaking and the including security checkpoints and service areas close to refugee crisis has snowballed into a full-blown flash- the campsites. point, over 69 million people have been displaced This year, the municipality has identified 18 sites with globally to evade persecution, war and violence. In an area of 616 sq km in the north, west and south of the 2017, conflicts and disasters around the world left an country; therefore, campers can apply for a camping estimated 201 million people in need of international license through the municipality’s website and pay the humanitarian assistance in order to survive. fees and insurance. The applicant will be able to inspect Two-thirds of all refugees worldwide come from the land prior to its request to ascertain its suitability for just five countries: Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, camping, especially after the heavy rains in the country. Myanmar and Somalia. Worst still, more than half of The applicant will be allowed to submit an application the refugees the world over are children. These chil- for a maximum area of 1,000 sq m and will be required dren are at an unprecedented risk of trafficking for to pay a nonrefundable municipal fee of KD 50. It is pro- forced labor, slavery, sexual abuse, prostitution, child hibited to burn foliage, damage natural life, construct marriages, illegal organ transplantations and recruit- KUWAIT: The Italian air force aerobatic team performs in Kuwait City yesterday as part of the Italian week in fences, excavate the land, hunt, kill or destroy shelters of ment as child combatants with unabated violence in Kuwait. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (More pics on Page 3) species, and graze livestock in camping areas. Continued on Page 24 the offing. While several frontline host countries in the MENA region have been reeling under pressure to accommodate the refugees and provide them with officer his job. shelter, food, medical assistance and sanitation, many Argentine sub The navy lost contact with the San of the countries have started shutting doors for the Juan on Nov 15, 2017, about 450 km uninvited guests or those who have overstayed their from the Argentine coast while it was welcome for that matter. found year after traveling northward from the country’s Some time back, I visited a Syrian refugee locality southern tip. “I still had hopes that they near Istanbul. I was shocked to meet a father who disappearance could be alive,” Luis Niz, the father of a was fixing his 12-year-old daughter’s marriage with a missing sailor, told reporters, even 60-year-old man. When I asked him why he was BUENOS AIRES: The wreckage of an though President Mauricio Macri’s gov- pushing his daughter to hell, he replied: “I lost my Argentine submarine has been located, a ernment had already declared there elder daughter. She was 14 and was abducted. We year after it vanished into the depths of were no survivors. “We are with the oth- have not been able to find her. My younger son the Atlantic Ocean with 44 crew mem- er relatives. They are going to show us works at an auto workshop. Only by marrying her off bers in the country’s worst naval disaster the photos. They say that our youngsters I can ensure her safety.” in decades. There has been “positive are inside,” said Yolanda Mendiola, the We all know how Rohingya children are being identification of the ARA San Juan,” at a mother of crewman Leandro Cisneros, killed and burnt alive while their mothers and sisters depth of 800 m, the navy said on Twitter, 28. “We are all destroyed here.” are raped. I am sure this is not the world that we confirming the vessel had imploded. The The discovery came the day after a want to leave for the generations to come. Clearly, Seabed Constructor, a ship owned by somber ceremony, which Macri attend- childhoods have to be reconstructed and restored US search firm Ocean Infinity, made the ed, at the San Juan’s Mar del Plata base before it’s all too late. discovery. It had set out in September on on the first anniversary of its disap- BUENOS AIRES: Argentinian navy spokesman Enrique Balbis speaks during a press con- Continued on Page 24 the latest attempt to find the San Juan, pearance. ference on the finding of the wreckage of the ARA San Juan submarine yesterday. — AFP whose disappearance cost the navy’s top Continued on Page 24 Teams search for News in brief 1,000 missing in No fines for cracked windshields KUWAIT: The traffic department announced tickets will not be issued to vehicles with cracked windshields California wildfire or windows due to the bad weather that resulted in flying gravel. The traffic department will carry out its CHICO, California: US President Donald Trump was usual role of organizing traffic and arresting law- heading yesterday to California to meet with officials, breakers, it said, calling on motorists to be cautious, victims and the “unbelievably brave” firefighters there, reduce speed and leave enough distance between as more than 1,000 people are listed as missing in the their vehicles and those in front of them to avoid dam- worst-ever wildfire to hit the US state. “It seems many age from flying gravel. — Al-Anbaa more people are missing than anyone thought even possible,” Trump told reporters from the White House South Lawn shortly before boarding the Marine One Lyrica drug criminalized helicopter to fly to Joint Base Andrews. The deadliest and most destructive wildfire in KUWAIT: A high-ranking legal source said Lyrica, California’s history, the so-called Camp Fire, has now which is prescribed as an analgesic for some patients, claimed 71 lives. The fire has devoured an area roughly has been criminalized, and those who possess it with- the size of Chicago, destroying nearly 10,000 homes out prescription will be jailed. The source said the and 2,400 other buildings. Butte County Sheriff Kory medicine is not permitted for use by everybody, but it Honea told reporters the number of people unaccount- was noticed that 90 percent of those arrested use it ed for had soared, from 631 to 1,011, in 24 hours as PARADISE, California: In this aerial photo, a burned neighborhood is seen on Nov 15, 2018. — AFP without prescription, which indicates a legal loophole authorities received more reports of people missing, to dispense it. — Al-Qabas and after earlier emergency calls were reviewed. Trump yesterday repeated an earlier claim that mis- cut federal funding to California over its alleged “gross “I want you to understand that this is a dynamic list,” management of California’s forests was largely to blame mismanagement” of forests, Trump tweeted Friday that Honea told reporters. He said that on a positive note, for the fires. “We will be talking about forest manage- he was looking forward to meeting Governor Jerry Bourse launches OTC trading 329 people who had been listed as missing have now ment,” he said. “This could have been a lot different sit- Brown and his newly elected successor Gavin Newsom. been accounted for. “The information I am providing uation.” Brian Rice, president of the California “We are with you!” Trump said. KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait announced yesterday it will you is raw data and we find there is the likely possibility Professional Firefighters, called Trump’s earlier remark Roslyn Roberts, 73, who was forced from her home begin today implementation of over the counter (OTC) that the list contains duplicate names,” he said, adding “ill-informed,” and added: “It is the federal government in Paradise, said she voted for Trump but would dis- market regulations and trading in this off-exchange sys- that some people who had escaped could be unaware that has chosen to divert resources away from forest agree with him if she has the chance yesterday. “I tem. The bourse said on its website that the new system they were listed as missing. management, not California.” would tell him that this fire has nothing to do with for- will be launched at 09:00 am and will remain open till The inferno erupted Nov 8, laying waste to the town California, which leans strongly Democratic, has est mismanagement.